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30. My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)

Genny: 22
Karo: 26
Inviso: 26
Red: 26
Johnbobb: 28
Stifled: 28
Scarlet: 28
JONA: 28
Snake: 29
Charon: 30

Total Score: 271

Genny: This movie has an awful plot, awful characters, and awful soundtrack. I've ranked it this high solely because I feel like the movies below it are just that much worse, because as bad as almost everything in this film was, at least it provided me some entertainment precisely because it was bad. I feel like the movies below this one aren't even memorable, and I at least enjoyed poking fun at how bad this movie was with my fianc as we watched it together. This movie is imo the bridge between the mediocre movies with very little to offer and the outright irredeemably bad and/or forgettable ones.

Karo: The MLP franchise may be quite popular nowadays, but this incarnation of the series is not spoke of in polite company, much like a severely disabled relative you keep chained in the basement whenever your friends come over.
So basically the plot is that ponyland gets overrun by apocalyptic singing purple sludge, and because it is immune to literally the only defense they have against evil (a magic rainbow), we witness the complete collapse of pony civilization.
Our cast of all-female pastel-colored horsies react to these hardships in one of the following ways: running away, crying, holding tickle fights, or getting someone else to solve their problems for them.
Yeah, lets teach little girls that they are useless and incapable of anything on their own. This is just so incredibly sexist there is no words.
Unfortunately, they also had the bright idea to make this a musical when nearly every member of the cast is tone-deaf (or possibly regular deaf), and unaware of what the definition of 'singing' is. The resulting soundtrack rapes the ears so brutally that blood gushes out freely.
As bad as the musicality of the movie was it is only a piece of a much larger problem, an apathetic half-assed attitude on the part of everyone involved in the production, and complete lack of any pride or quality control whatsoever in their work.
It is often said by 'wise' individuals that girls are not a profitable target for movies. Well, maybe it has something to do with trying to feed them horseshit like this.

Inviso: Its a damn shame that I cant rank this last because its just as bad as the worst of the films Ive watched through this point in the list. Seriously, how many stupid, kiddy movies did the 80s need to produce that insulted the intelligence of children? I honestly cannot tell you a single characters name outside of Spike (who was unique in being a dragon), and Lickety Split (who hung around Spike and no other ponies for most of the movie.) Everyone feels generic, there are dumb, pointless songs. And the immature kid in me laughs at the fact that there is a race called grundles. I rank this above some even shittier films because there IS a coherent plot, albeit a bad one, and there is nothing actively offensive in the animation, or the obnoxious boy character. Other than that, this was terrible. How the hell did this show get rebooted into something so amazing?
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